{"id":36343,"date":"2021-02-18T18:56:09","date_gmt":"2021-02-18T19:56:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=36343"},"modified":"2021-02-18T20:14:22","modified_gmt":"2021-02-18T20:14:22","slug":"bbl-stars-land-life-changing-million-dollar-ipl-deals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=36343","title":{"rendered":"BBL stars land 'life changing' million dollar IPL deals"},"content":{"rendered":"

BBL stars Jhye Richardson, Riley Meredith and Glenn Maxwell<\/a> will take on multi-million dollar IPL<\/a> contracts, while the news for Steve Smith<\/a> isn't too pleasing with the former Australian captain set to cop a $2 million loss from last year's deal.<\/p>\n

Smith, who last year was retained on a $2.5 million contract with the Rajasthan Royals, was the first player sold at Thursday's IPL auction after Ricky Ponting's Delhi Capitals snatched up the Australian batsman for just $A389,000.<\/p>\n

The 31-year-old Smith last year scored 311 runs at an average of 25.91 through 14 games, which was well down from 2019's average of 39.87 with the bat.<\/p>\n

But the news for a number of other Aussies was much better after Richardson, last season's BBL leading wickettaker, went for $2.48m to the Kings XI Punjab.<\/p>\n

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While Maxwell was also sold for a similar price, but to Virat Kohli's Royal Challengers Bangalore for $2.52m.<\/p>\n

24-year-old Meredith, who played for the Hobart Hurricanes last BBL season, was also auctioned for a monster price, with the Kings XI Punjab paying $1.4m.<\/p>\n

Nathan Coulter-Nile and Dan Christian also received major paydays, after being picked up for $885,000 and $850,000, respectively. Coulter-Nile will play for the Mumbai Indians, while Christian will turn out for Royal Challengers Bangalore.<\/p>\n

The other Australians sold during the IPL auction were Moises Henriques (Kings XI Punjab, $744,000) and Ben Cutting (Kolkata Knight Riders, $133,00), but not all Australians were as lucky, including ODI skipper Aaron Finch, who was left unsold. <\/p>\n

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BBL stars Jhye Richardson, Riley Meredith and Glenn Maxwell will take on multi-million dollar IPL contracts, while the news for Steve Smith isn't too pleasing […]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36343"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=36343"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36343\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36344,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36343\/revisions\/36344"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=36343"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=36343"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=36343"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}